LEADERS ARE NOT BORN BUT ARE PRODUCED BY THE REVOLTUION AND ITS EVOLUTION BY: KAIZER MOHAU
Recent developments within the ANC in the North West province provokes others to avoid being silent. It has become very clear that our decision to disband structures in the province is far from being enough. Let me start by congratulating the African National Congress and its entire structures for making the most important decision of making sure that Cde Jacob Zuma become the President of the Republic. I am making these congratulations considering the decision made by many leaders to choose Cde Jacob Zuma as the best leader we have, in fact they should even add to say, since after the Nelson Mandela term he is the only leader our country has correctly identified. To be chosen as the African President of the year, indicates this correctness and the role Cde Jaocb Zuma has played so far clearly makes me and many others in our country to be proud of being South Africans – and we hope and wish to maintain this positive character of our country. In the recent letter from the President, Cde Jacob Zuma speaks about the ongoing community protests which have in the past few weeks dominated in the media – Cde Jacob Zuma spoke of the legitimacy and reasonability for our communities to raise issues, this is completely based on the fact that the President and many South Africans do not agree with violence which has seem to be the strategy to raise these issues – it is in this context that as both South Africans and cadres of the movement we need to start doing clear analysis of the role we are playing especially in local government whose main mandate is service delivery. The objective and critical questions we must pose are amongst others, whether we are doing what we are supposed to do and in line with what is expected of us by the general population? Are we ensuring that each cent of the public money is it used to advance what charactrised our elections manifesto based on the straight forward mandate of bettering the lives of our people – This point brings me to the issue of the North West province – where I am certain and I am unapologetically convinced that we are seriously not doing what we should be doing – instead of delivering servicing we are concern with political factions which are compromising our government by disrespecting the ANC National leadership and the recently established Task teams. Councilors in many municipalities are no longer attending the ANC caucus meetings , they are not even paying attention to meetings which are convened by the task teams, precisely because they do not respect the decision that has brought about the Task teams. Others are publicly arguing that these task teams are unconstitutional – an argument that has no basis in so far as challenges facing us are concerned. It is therefore a well thought view that the disbandment of ANC structures cannot be correct unless 90% of Executive Mayors and councilors are re-called. The disbanded Provincial Executive Committee did not act alone in all the organizational and political crimes they committed – in our municipalities they worked with others, using state resources. It is a fact that all those who got tenders during that period, were paying back by funding a certain political faction, even when the National Executive Committee came to the North West university Potchefstroom campus – it was tendered criminals who transported those who went to protest against the NEC in support of Supra Mahupelo and his cohorts. After the NEC made the decision to disband the PEC, members of the NEC were deployed to come to the Province in the North West to pronounce on this decision – but councilors and Mayors assisted those who were opposed to mobiles branches to go and protest even to violently disrespect the NEC in Rustenburg – worse of all these actions continues to bye justified today. In one of the Executive Mayor offices in the province, they just three weeks ago plugged pictures of President Cde Jacob Zuma – even if we had elections many months ago – in fact in some offices even today you still have pictures of the former President – without those of the current President. What do we call this? And why do we still have these individuals as Executive Mayors? When we raise these points we are simply told that we will be dealt with, because they are of the view that today the ANC does no longer exist – And still some National leaders accuses us of trying to run the ANC and telling it what to do – perhaps these national leaders forgot that we have always been saying the power of the ANC is in its branches – so who do they expect to tell them how the ANC must be run? The factionalists in government are even using the media today to organize themselves for the 2011 elections – and a simple example is this one: As part of government communication, many municipalities have created newspapers and newsletters with which to ensure that our communities are communicated with on all issues – many municipalities in the province have created these initiatives. However, the problem is with the manner in which the media in general is used to lobby for them so that they are retained come local government elections. For instances some of the community media which exist in municipalities attacks the ANC all around but they give Executive Mayors opportunities which are not in line with the ANC – one Comrade in the province was wrongly reported many times in all those times the Democratic Alliance was given a platform to attack not the comrade but the ANC, despite complaints from the ANC and its senior councilors about the conduct of the radio station – the Executive Mayor continues to sponsor the station and even include some individuals in oversea trips – in our view this is to make sure that the station does not misreport the EM. It will be noted that amongst other things we raised prior the elections was the secretive role some individuals played in creating the so-called Congress of the people – those who left happened to come back to the ANC – But our thinking is that it is the strategy of trying to make sure that by the time these individuals decided to represent COPE at the local government elections they will be popular in public eyes and they will use their popularity to criticize the ANC . It is within this context that we wish the PTT will consider re-calling some of these people before it is too late. The same comrade I mentioned above who has become an issue with the local media – has even started a legal case of suing the media but senior cadres in his municipality were he is deployed have just resolved to financially sponsor that media, which means if he wins the case then the public money which is given to the anti ANC media will be used to pay him – is this not ironic? >From our deep and humble perspectives, we call on the PTT to resolve municipalities and re- call Executive Mayors and some councilors even if they are moved to other deployments were they will be permanently monitored. The above case has been reported to ICASA, NCRF and the Press ombudsman – some at the NCRF even made concern comments about the community media including the question as to why do they always invite the DA on issues which have nothing to do with government and politics and yet be entertained by the DA’s attack on the ANC. Finally we call on all those who disagree with us not to make silly comments and statements but to engage accordingly – we do not fear or favors anyone – the Revolution is not a religious cult but a living scientific process. YOURS FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION AND SOCIALISM Kaizer Mohau --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
